Hi All This site is helping me find my gg grandfathers history in county Tyrone thank you for such a great web site. I hope you might be able to help me find further evidence to solidly prove it. Scot/Irish Presbyterians often followed their pastors to settle in the new world. Rev. David Evans left Pomeroy Cavanakeeran in 1838 to travel to St. Therese Quebec Canada. Your site shows his living in Tyrone 1829 and the records in Canada show his new church 1838. I believe he brought a number of settlers with him and that is what I need help to proven. Unfortunately for them they landed in the midst of the Papineau Rebellion and in 1841 moved to Richmond Ontario. Not all moved but I believe some. Among them I believe is my gg grandfather John we now know as John McCoy. According to the Tithe and Apploment books there is a John McKee(alternate McCoy spelling) in 1829 but does not appear in the Validation books after 1838 in Cavanakeeran Tyrone. The Rev. Evans is also married to an Elizabeth McKee. She is buried in Richmond Ontario. I speculated that this John McKee is our same John McCoy and Elizabeth is probably his daughter from a previous marriage. John we know marries Mary Gaddis late in life and they have children, Margaret, James, Robert, Anne, Wm, and Mary Jane in Ireland. There is a Gaddis family only a few miles away from Pomeroy, Cavanakeern 1829. I believe John and family followed his minister and his daughter and son in law too Richmond where he settled. My problem is the lack of Tyrone records which show this to be the same family or families. Many full names are the same in Tyrone Ireland, St Therese and Richmond but how to prove this is not a coincidence with out birth, death, marriage records from Tyrone? This story also fits the time line of our community narrative which is passed down orally through the generations. Lost to the narrative is the specific names of Tyrone towns. For example the narrative refers to Cavanakeeran simply as Cavan. Hope you might be able to help me out. Thank you so much. Cheers Ron McCoy
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